Notes
The Roll lists Gervase's address as Barclay's Bank, Church Street, Peterborough; it records no date of death.
(CWGC records that Captain Gervase William Birkbeck of the 5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment died aged 30 on 20/4/1917, and is commemorated on Jerusalem Memorial in Israel & Palestine; they record him as the son of Henry & Ysabel Birkbeck of Westacre High House, Castle Acre, King's Lynn. The Probate Index records that Gervase died in Syria on 19/4/1917. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects also record that he died on 19/4/1917, as does his entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War and also his Medal Index Card. On 8/5/1917 the Newcastle Journal reported that he had been wounded, describing him as an old Etonian and a skilful cricketer, and as the son of Henry Birkbeck of Westacre , Norfolk. On 20/9/1917 the Newcastle Journal announced that Gervase, who had previously been reported as wounded and missing, had now been listed as killed in action on 19/7/1917, aged 30).